Updated Instructions for Installing Drupal Vagrant on Windows 7

May 19 2012

VirtualBox, Vagrant, Ruby, and Git have all gone through upgrades (major and minor) since I wrote the chapter on installing them in Multi-Site Drupal. While this hasn't made much of a difference for Mac and Linux/UNIX, Windows 7 support is now much better.

Here is a guide for installing the Multi-Site vagrant image for Drupal 7 on Windows 7. (If you're interested in running Drupal Vagrant, these instructions will work for that project as well.)
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Intro

When I first wrote Multi-Site Drupal, Windows 7 support for VirtualBox, Ruby, and Vagrant were still in flux. Now, several months later, the landscape has solidified. Here are updated instructions for installing on Windows 7.

Install Some Packages

To work with the Vagrant profile, you will need to download the following packages:

That will pull the MultiSite Vagrant profile for the book. (Check out this page for an explanation of that project.) You could also start from the basic Drupal Vagrant project of you just want to get a Drupal site going and aren't interested in following along with the book.